UN’S WEEK OF CYBER NORMS TALKS — From our friends at POLITICO Europe’s Cyber Insights: In past days diplomats gathered in New York for discussions on how international law should stop all-out cyber warfare — some (Dutch ones) even wearing helmets to the meeting. “It started with dramatic twists, like the Russian representative warning for a ‘global cyberwar’ and Iran self-portraying itself as the first victim of a serious ICT cyberattack, calling the Stuxnet attack ‘cyber Hiroshima,’” said Lukasz Olejnik, a cybersecurity researcher associated with the Center for Technology and Global Affairs at Oxford University.
It’s the first substantial discussion of the U.N. cyber group created at the initiative of Russia. Any country can participate in the process. China, Iran, Canada, Australia and others filed written contributions. Many others intervened in past days. Observers are watching "to see how the OEWG [Open-Ended Working Group], which grew out of the Russian resolution, how much ownership the country will have in the process," said Karoliina Ainge, former head of Estonian cybersecurity policy who now works at political consultancy Independent Diplomat.
